The upcoming newest scion of the Battlefield family called Hardline was delayed from its original release date of October 2014 release date to a March 2015 one. The October-November period is a busy one, and quite a few other titles have flinched already. But flinching is not part of the Visceral experience!
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Visceral Games' Ian Milham talked to IGN about the results of beta testing, which gave the team so much feedback that they wanted to incorporate most if not all of it, causing a delay. "Not only did we did get permission to make it different, we got demand to make it different," Milham said. "Some of it wasn't necessarily that all of the feedback was 'Oh, we want it more different' and we were like 'Well, OK, that is going to take a while,' But it was part of the compilation of stuff, for sure."
On the necessity of a whole Battlefield game (rather than an expansion) that isn't Battlefield 5: "I think we are making something different from the core of Battlefield that is being made and I think they can live along next to each other," he said. "And whatever gets made next and whenever the next Battlefield comes along, I don't think it necessarily replaces this one."
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"We are really trying to keep an open mind and an open dialog with people and be reactive about that," he said. "It's going to come out, and people will have passionate opinions and will play it new a way, and you can never really predict what people are going to do."
Battlefield Hardline is coming somewhere down the (hard)line in March 2015 to PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.